Nail-cabinet.



J; D. LEEN.

NAIL CABINET.

, APPLICATION 21min nno.2o,19o1.

PATENTED AUG. 4, 1908,

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

21 i in no i v UNITED STATES PATEN OFFICE.

JOHN D. LEEN, OF BANGOR, MAINE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO SAMUEL STERNS AND EZRA L. STERNS, OF BANGOR, MAINE. i v

NAIL-CABINET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 4, 1908.

Application filed December 20, 1907. Serial No. 407,303.

T 0 all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, JOHN D. LEEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bangor, in the county of Penobscot and State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Nail-Cabinets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is an improvement upon the nail cabinet for which Letters Patent were granted to me February 18, 1902, Serial Number 693,525.

The invention consists in providing the cabinet with means operated from without the cabinet for checking delivery of nails from the front compartment, and permitting them to be drawn from a rear compartment while the first con'ipartment is full.

The invention also includes a device for filling the cabinet.

In the accompanying drawingsl igure 1 is a perspective view of my cabinet. Fig. 2 is a vertical section therethrough taken from back to front. Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken through the ends of the cabinet. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the nail filling device.

In these drawings A represents the cabinet casing which is provided with the nail holding drawers B and the retaining needles C, these parts being fully shown and described in the patent above referred to. The casing A is divided by a central partition A into two separate parts each of which is provided with its own drawer B. Each side of the cabinet A is further subdivided by a vertical partition D which stops short the inclined ottoin A of the cabinet.

In my )atentcd construction the partitions which correspond to the partitions D of the present construction were moved vertically in order to open or close communication between the rear compartments and the drawers B. In the present construction the partitions when once adjusted remain in their adjusted position. Each side of the cabinet therefore consists of a front and a rear compartment separated by one of the partitions, and communicating beneath the lower edge of said partition. I secure in each front compartment :1 V-shaped wire check E which attachmentis angled midway its ends so that the free end portions set at right angles to the apex, and

these free end portions rest within the front compartment being passed through suitable openings A the apex portion normally extending downwardly against the from face of the cabinet, and the free end portions, which form a check for the nails placed in said front compartment, extending across 0 the compartment in a horizontal plane. These check frames are held in this position v by rotatable hooks F which are engaged by the apices of the check frames. lVha-n the nails have been withdrawn from the rear compartment and it is desired to remove them from the front compartments it is only necessary to turn u the hooks F and the inner free end portions of the check frames will be swung downwardly by weight 7() of the nails resting thereon, and the outer portion will swing upwardly into a horizontal plane as shown in Fig. 2 by the dotted lines. The nails will then befed from the front compartment. It will be understood that when nails are placed in such a cabinet they are matted or intermingled, and consequently the inwardly extending free end portions of the wire frame are sufficient to uphold practicall the entire mass;

In order to fiil the compartments conveniently I employ a box G which has one end I-I pivotally connected midway its twosidcs to the sides of the box G. To prevent swinging movement of this end gate H a cross bar H is placed on the box and a button J is )ivotally mounted upon said cross bar. -When turned at right angles to the cross bar the button J bears against the end II upon its pivotal point and holds its lower edge portion firmly against that end of the box bot-tom. hen the box G has been filled by cm )tying a nail keg therein it is tilted with the gate end resting on the top of the cabinet A, and the button -I turns parallel to the cross bar H, thus aliowing the weight of the nails pressing against the lower portion of said gate to swing it downwardly, and the upper portion of the gate swinging inwardly and striking the cross bar H. The nails are therefore easily discharged into the proper compartment of the cabinet.

Having thus fully described n1 invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. The combination with a nail cabinet having vertically extending compartments,

a V-sha'ped check frame angled and toosely carried by the front wall of the cabinet, the

V r I free portions of said frame normally extendpivotally mounted at the angle of the frame ing transversely into the front colnpartin the front wall of said cabinet, and a fas- .ment, and a hook adapted to engage the tening device adapted to normally hold the apex of the frame, said hook being upon the v exterior ortion of the frame parallel to the 1.5 5 exterior of the cabinet. l i vertieaLF nt of the cabinet, asand for the 1 2. The COITIblICIISItlOII with a nail cabinecti purpose set FSEEHI V iavim front an rear commrtinents sai i 7 comptirtments connnunica ting at their 1 JOHN LEEN' lower ends, the cabinet having an inclined i Vitnesses: 10 bottom, an angled frame extending through S. D. BENSON,

the front of the cabinet, said frame being JOHN P. SMITH. 

